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sam, we have all seen those testing lines. they are extremely long whether people are hanging out on the sidewalk or in their car. tell us what you are seeing and hearing from folks, and also what you know about the airlines grounding lights? reporter: first, testing, you see this crush of cars over my shoulder. that s one little snippet of what is going on at the testing and vaccination site here in miami-dade. they are somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 to 9,000 people getting tested today, and that s triple the numbers in the last coming days. it did not look like this a week ago, but it is ramped up with so many wanting to go and see their loved ones, and florida almost broke its record yesterday, a strong likelihood we will see a bigger number than that that will be the single number of infections daily we have seen so far. that s on the testing site. miami-dade officially is at 15% and climbing. now, let s talk about the airlines. delta airlines announcing i ....
president is putting the onus on the unvaccinated. if you aren t fully vaccinated you have good reason to be concerned. you are at a high risk of getting sick. almost everyone who died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. unvaccinated. get vaccinated now. it is your patriot duty. we should all be concerned about omicron but not panicked. this is a critical moment. also more tools than we ve ever had before. we re ready. dana: former cdc director robert redfield is moments away with what you need to know. let s begin with peter doocy. they re waking up to tough headlines for the administration. the people in charge are telling us two different things. they can t both be true at the same time. first you have president biden saying this new variant came out of nowhere. president biden: covid is spreading so rapidly if you notice. it just happened almost overnight in the last month. so no. it s not but the alarm bell went off. i don t think ....
a very police state trooper at the door told them that the capital was closed, except for official business, that everybody who is due to be there that day, for that official business was already there unaccounted for. and these republicans know they could not come in. the official business that was underway at the capitol that day, is michigan was going through the official process by which the states electors, cast their votes in the electoral college. biden won the state of miss michigan. that means the electors for biden and harris were chosen to be the official electors for michigan. the electors that they had to meet officially at the state capitol at noon and cast their votes in the electoral college. it s an elaborate and performative process we go through to pick a president in this country, but that is the part of the process that was underway in that state capital that day. it was kind of just this crazy thing to see that these republicans were outside bangin ....
is now spiking. the u.s. now reporting more than 130,000 new cases per day and hospitalizations from covid are up 35% over just last month. dr. anthony fauci warning americans that the next few weeks and months are going to be difficult as omicron continues to spread. he and another medical expert urging everyone to get their vaccinations and booster shots from maximum protection and fauci criticizing americans that claim they have a right not to get vaccinated. reminding them that covid has killed more than 800,000 americans. when someone says well, i m taking my own chances, it is my body, i ll worry about it, nobody should tell me that i need to get vaccinated or that i should wear a mask in an indoor setting. well, that might be fine for you you won t get ill because hospitals are full of people that made that mistake and so are graveyards full of people that have made that mistake. tonight, an official in harris county, texas reporting a death related to the om ....
united states. tonight, the cdc saying omicron accounts for 73% of all new cases. now, when it was first detected in the u.s. in the first week of december, mind you it accounted for 1% of cases. by the second week of this month, just over 12%. and now, accounting for every three of every four cases. and the overall covid case load is now spiking. the u.s. now reporting more than 130 130,000 new cases per day and hospitalizations from covid are up 35% over just last month. dr. anthony fauci warning americans that the next few weeks and months are going to be difficult as omicron continues to spread. he and another medical expert urging everyone to get their vaccinations and booster shots from maximum protection and fauci criticizing americans that claim they have a right not to get vaccinated. reminding them that covid has killed more than 800,000 americans. when someone says well, i m taking my own chances, it is my body, i ll worry about it, nobody should tell me th ....